Update: Boing Boing posts the parody ad from Hustler that had Falwell claiming to have lost his virginity to his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued Hustler editor Larry Flynt over that—and lost—in a long freedom of speech trial that went all the way to the Supreme Court.

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I only now heard about that. I was hoping it’d be Robertson to croke first, but this is a start. For all you or I know though, Falwell (I don’t even know how to spell his damn name), may have perhaps been the one evangelical on earth to be able to successfully conceal his true orientation. His dirty conduct with the model(s) or whatever could have been propaganda, or at least that’s I wish of mine that’ll probably never come true. I just want Robertson to die.
Sometimes I leave the TV on as background noise when I draw. Half the time, without thinking, I end up leaving it on a channel that plays ‘Whose Line is it Anyway’ because I don’t want anything that would destract me. I am there for a long time and ineveitably I fall asleep, waking up at 3:00 to Robertson making pancakes for Jesus or some shit. My body wants terribly to remain immobile, though my mind screams ‘shut this motherfucker off.’

Yes, there’s still plenty more of them around, unfortunately. But the important thing is that they’re losing their ridiculous battles. Their political influence seems to have peaked with the Bush regime.

Falwell was the first to get any attention in the UK, I remember seeing him on TV circa 1981 when the “Moral Majority” was in the news, ranting about “perverts”. The irony is that they’ve never been able to be as vicious as they’d like for fear of alienating their less-than-fervent supporters. So Falwell would often look like a hypocrite for spouting some garbage about Jews or gays then immediately back-tracking when it caused a fuss. At least people like the KKK are honest about their hatreds.